Track: Prudence – Heart Sways
If you caught Australian act DMA’s brilliant live performance live at the Brixton Academy in the UK, streamed twice over the past few days, you might have noted bass player…
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Arun Kendall
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Writer/ Senior Editor for Backseat Mafia (UK) and Backseat Downunder (Australia and New Zealand). Singer/guitarist/songwriter with Australian band The Hadron Colliders.
EP: Destrends – Wastelands
Destrends have produced an explosive post-punk EP that recalls an eighties Australian post-punk mentality epitomised by bands like Midnight Oil and Spy Vs Spy: vibrant, passionate and intelligent, danceable and…
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Album Review: Lunar Twin – Ghost Moon Ritual
For a duo with members in Hawaii and Utah, Lunar Twin have perfectly captured a glacial Arctic chill with deep dark gothic trimmings in their glorious album ‘Ghost Moon Ritual’.…
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Video: The Brave Faces – In The Dark
We were highly impressed by The Brave Faces single ‘In the Dark’ which we were honoured to premiere recently, and it great to be able to see the new video…
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Album Review: RVG – Feral
Melbourne band RVG (Romy Vager Group), in their second album ‘Feral’, have somehow managed to coalesce all that is great in the Australian indie scene – past and present –…
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Track: Eskobar – When Your Heroes Fall
There is no doubt that Sweden’s Eskobar have a genetic code that can be clinically traced back to the sounds of Manchester in the nineties – The Stone Roses, The…
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Track: Jónsi – Exhale
There is a heartbreakingly beautiful element to anything Iceland’s Jónsi (Jón Þór Birgisson) creates, whether it be through Sigur Rós or collaborations with partner Alex Somers. Jónsi has just released…
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Track: Fingerless – Sympathetic Love
You just don’t know where you are with Fingerless. One minute they are producing psychedelic shoegaze slacker rock with the odd Gregorian chant thrown in, the next thing they produce…
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News: DMA’s announce worldwide live stream of entire Brixton Academy Gig
In anticipation of their forthcoming album ‘The Glow’ and to compensate for the lack of live gigs to support this, DMA’s have just announced two live stream events of their…
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Video: Coalfalls – Coalfalls
We were highly impressed by Coalfalls‘s double instrumental single ‘Coalfalls/Stephenson Street’ recently and the band has doubled down with the release of a mesmerising video for the track Coalfalls. Recorded,…
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